OK, let me start at the beginning. Sine the end of last March I’ve been struggling to get back in shape. Eileen decided I needed a carrot and a sprint triathlon would be just the thing…
When we found the Race On The Base – Triathlon we signed up. It was a reverse triathlon: 5K, (3.1 [...]
I’ve been battling some weird illness for the past week or so and it has been getting in the way of my training for the Paris Marathon, which is now only about six weeks away. I thought I had come up with my own weird disease until I started talking to folks and realized it’s [...]
It’s been a solid week on the road for Chuck and me. We’ve been traveling since last Sunday, and got home late yesterday. We spent five days in Yuba City where Chuck was doing some training, then headed down to visit friends in Vacaville, then yesterday we went to San Francisco to check out MacWorld [...]
It’s been a nerve wracking week here at Chez O’Shea. This week marked nine months since the end of Chuck’s chemo treatments, and six months since his last PET scan. Monday they did a new PET scan and today we got the results. It was all good news. Mister Fatty Necrosis, of whom I wrote [...]
If you’re like me, you get inundated with junk catalogs on an almost daily basis. A lot of the time they’re catalogs from companies from whom I’ve never ordered anything. Argh! What to do? Try Catalog Choice! It’s a little tedious at first as you have to enter the info for the catalogs you want [...]
I just finished watching Conan O’Briens last Tonight Show on Hulu (go Hulu!!) because, well, I can’t stay up that late anymore. Wow, what a show! I always liked Conan, and thought jay leno was kind of same old boring. Conan always has seemed to me to channel a sincerely silly inner child (versus David [...]
Wow, it’s been an exciting day here in So Cal! I know folks back east will laugh but you should have seen the rainfall we got today! I mean, there was a LOT of it! I had a very scary drive home from an appointment when I got caught in a massive downpour. My Mini [...]
If you have some spare funds and would like to help the Haiti relief efforts, here are some easy ways: text YELE to 501 501 to donate $5 to Wyclef Jean’s Organization or HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross.
I mean, the whole Punxsutawney Phil thing is cool and all, but this [...]
Punxsutawney Phil, that inimitable little furry weather forecaster, is going to be texting his prediction this year! If you want to find out whether Phil predicts an early spring or six more weeks of winter you can text “Groundhog” to 247365. You’ll get a text message with the prediction on Feb. 2.
Okay, if this isn’t [...]
chuck’s cool shades
Originally uploaded by eoshea
I was tagged by the Lady Who Lunches to find my favorite photo. As Meagan predicted, I had to look long and hard however my quest made easier by the fact that the photos I would choose (since meeting Chuck in 2001) are all online. I have lots of photos [...]